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I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh. -- Muhammad Yunus
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money. -- Arthur Miller
People cannot live by lending money to one another. -- John Ruskin
Just because someone will lend money to you doesn't mean you should borrow it. -- Jean Chatzky
The business of a bank is to lend money; which amounts, nowadays, to lending credit. -- John Buchanan Robinson
A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it. -- Bob Hope
I learned how to lend money by cleaning up the messes of others who had made loans before me. -- John Stumpf
They explained to me that the bank cannot lend money to poor people because these people are not creditworthy. -- Muhammad Yunus
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Seneca devoted much of his time to writing essays in praise of poverty, and in lending money at usurious rates. -- Josh Billings
My worst investment decision so far is to lend money to friends. So far, it has all come to zero. -- Marc Faber
I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over. -- Muhammad Yunus
I lend people money, but I'd never lend something that would jeopardise a friendship if I didn't get it back. -- Paloma Faith
No, Sir, you will have much more influence by giving or lending money where it is wanted, than by hospitality. -- Samuel Johnson
Companies typically borrow money at less than their return on equity and therefore compound their return at the expense of lenders. -- Bill Gross
Being a Mets fan is like lending someone a lot of money and you just know that you'll never get paid back. -- John Oliver
My history of lending money from banks is that they want to know the ins and outs of the backside of a duck. -- Alan Sugar
You can make great money in a utility type of business by borrowing cheaply and lending sensibly but that's not what's being done. -- Meredith Whitney
We are lending money we don't have to kids who can't pay it back to train them for jobs that no longer exist. That's nuts. -- Mike Rowe
So you know, everyone points out Greece's default record, but the history of a lot of sovereign nations is not a good one when it comes to lending them money. -- James Chanos
I am hoping to be able to lend my support to a Sickle Cell charity in the near future, as I want to try and help raise money and awareness about this disease. -- Jourdan Dunn
It may be said, let him take Money at Interest, and not buy at Time. But then Men must be found, that will lend; the Legislative must provide a Fund to borrow upon. -- Dudley North
When does money run out of time? The countdown begins when investable assets pose too much risk for too little return; when lenders desert credit markets for other alternatives such as cash or real assets. -- Bill Gross
The Question to be considered is, Whether the Government have reason by a Law, to prohibit the taking more than 4 l. per cent Interest for Money lent, or to leave the Borrower and Lender to make their own Bargains. -- Dudley North
Banks hold deposits and savings entrusted to them by individuals, by businesses, by governments and by central banks. They put that money to work, helping people to buy homes, for example, or lending to businesses to invest in expansion. -- Bob Diamond
The rich nations of the world are acting like ancient usurers, lending money to the desperate poor on terms that cannot possibly be met and, thus, steadily acquiring more and more control over the lives and assets of the poor. -- William Greider
If we are lending money that ostensibly we don't have to kids who have no hope of making it back in order to train them for jobs that clearly don't exist, I might suggest that we've gone around the bend a little bit, -- Mike Rowe
What went wrong is we had tremendous concentration in the sense we put a lot of our money to work against U.S. real estate. We got here by lending money, and putting money to work in the U.S. real estate market, in a size that was probably larger than what we ought to have done on a diversification basis. -- Vikram Pandit
There is one bit of advice given us by the ancient Greeks, and by the Jews in the Old Testament, and by the great Christian teachers of the Middle Ages, which the modern economic system has completely disobeyed. All these people told us not to lend money at interest; and lending money at interest - what we call investment - is the basis of our whole system. -- C. S. Lewis
When lending people money, be sure their character exceeds their collateral. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Money lending is a horrible profession. If we are to call it otherwise it is lawful plundering. -- Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
When money is free, the rational lender will keep on lending until there is no one else to lend to. -- George Soros
The essence of the contemporary monetary system is creation of money, out of nothing, by private banks' often foolish lending. -- Martin Wolf

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